Cascadia Food Not Lawns - Cascadia Food Not Lawns

Food Not Lawns is turning Yards into Gardens and Neighborhoods into Communities around the World! We envison a thriving human ecology, and embrace theories and techniques derived from permaculture, kinship gardening, ecological design, and biodynamics. We offer educational, organizational, and hands-on services, such as garden design, events organizing, writing, research, and interactive community workshops. We specialize in lawn-tossing and community seed swaps!

Welcome to the revised website for the Cascadia chapter of Food Not Lawns. The original chapter, Cascadia FNL recently hosted our 9th annual community seed swap event in Eugene!

Co-founders Tobias Policha, Heather C. Flores, and Nick Routledge have branched off into several exciting projects, and we invite you to visit us and get involved!

Click here to visit the new Food Not Lawns International Hub of Operations at www.foodnotlawns.net, organized and facilitated by author Heather C. Flores.

Click here to connect with Tobias Policha and the Institute for Contemporary Ethnobotany, offering classes and courses in and around Eugene.

Click here to connect with NIck Routledge, now organizing Victory Gardens and children's projects in Eugene.

January 31, 2009 is International Seed Swap Day of Action. Host a seed swap in your neighborhood in solidarity! Visit www.foodnotlawns.net for more information!

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Buy this Book! Read it! Grow Stuff!


What Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry says about Food Not Lawns (the book): “In a time of so much hopelessness this book reminds us that there really is so much we can do. I encourage everyone seeking peace and well being to dig into this rich loam of information. It will inspire you to grow food not lawns.”	And Michael Ableman: “Food Not Lawns provides a road map for ecological and social literacy in our own backyards and neighborhoods. A quiet revolution is taking place across the country centered on small plots in urban and suburban areas where food is being produced, jobs grown, and real community developed. This timely book serves as an important guide, providing a source of both information and inspiration for one of the most hopeful and exciting movements of our time.”	And Herbalist author Susun Weed: "Food Not Lawns is radical (rooted), subversive (underground), and seeded throughout with treasures that will sprout into savory, beautiful flowers. Don't just buy this book: Read it. Don't just read this book: Do it. Grow a garden. And let the weeds grow; they're good medicine."

Stuff to Read

note: these articles are quite old! We are sure you will enjoy them anyway, but for more current information, please visit one of the links at the top of the page to see what we've been up to lately! Have fun!

Click on the articles below to read about our work...
Don't be Wasted on Grass! Lawns to Gardens!
The Five Precepts of Peace; Using Permaculture to Make Peace Real
What if I Don't Have a Lawn? Urban Land & Permaculture Design
Ten Things We Can do to Save Water
Finding Work that Works
Water: You Can't Live Without It!
Peace Through Permaculture
A Conversation on Biodynamics
Zone Zero: Permaculture Starts with Yourself
FOOD NOT LAWNS! Can you dig it!?!?
Cities to Gardens
How to Organize a Seed Swap
Introduction to Kinship Gardening
Why Kinship Gardening?
The Significance of Kinship Gardening to Permaculture

On permission to reprint articles and photos from this website:

Some recent discussions around academic integrity in the activist community call for a clarification:
We are happy to share our seeds, our writing, and anything else with any and all who share our passion for earth-care and community building. We prefer to give seeds away than to sell them, and are dedicated to increasing access to permaculture and organic living. Thus, we welcome the "unauthorized" use of any of the documents here. You are welcome to republish them on your web page, copy them to a print document, and distribute them at will. HOWEVER, we do ask that full credit for the author and a link to this website always be included. The articles here were written by several different people, and each is credited accordingly. Excerpts from the book, "Food Not Lawns," are copyright protected by the publisher, but nobody is going to give you a hard time for a little excerpt, as long as it is credited. That way, if people like the writing, they know where to go for more!

Other Food Not Lawns Groups

Please find the current, fast-growing roster at www.foodnotlawns.net